{"id":45044,"date":"2023-03-13T05:51:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45044"},"modified":"2023-03-13T05:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:51:26","slug":"pop-culture-mx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-mx\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture: Mx."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about modern English: the tutor mentions Mx.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI wrote &#8220;Ms.&#8221; in a note to someone last year, thinking I was being politically correct: I knew she was a &#8220;Miss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nApparently, I didn&#8217;t get it quite right: &#8220;Ms.,&#8221; she pointed out, is gender-specific. The proper title, she continued, is &#8220;Mx.&#8221; That way, you can&#8217;t go wrong: you&#8217;re not assuming attachment or gender.<\/p>\n<p>\nThings can be tricky nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radicalcopyeditor.com\/2020\/07\/30\/mx\/\">radicalcopyeditor.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about modern English: the tutor mentions Mx. I wrote &#8220;Ms.&#8221; in a note to someone last year, thinking I was being politically correct: I knew she was a &#8220;Miss.&#8221; Apparently, I didn&#8217;t get it quite right: &#8220;Ms.,&#8221; she pointed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-mx\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pop culture: Mx.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45046,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45044\/revisions\/45046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}